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HELD IN STOUT GRIP Rev, Dr. Talmage Draws a Lesson From Eleazar's Tenacity. Closer Adherence to the Gospel Urged--The Noted Preacher Sys He Will Not Cease to Preach Because He Resigned His Pastorate. Washington, April 0. In the flrxt notice concerning I>r Talmago that 1'atilor Charltw H. Spurgiwn of London wrote the grent KtiKlish minUtor Hnld he was glad to find a pnwhtir that bcliiivi-d omethlng. Thin dl.scourse of Dr. Tal- ruage Is In that vein and urge* clou* adherence to the old gospel; text, II. Samuel zzlll. 10, "And hu hand olnv* unto the *word. " What a glorious thing to preach the gospel! Suiue suppose that booause I rinvs resigned a llxod pastorate I will cease to preach. No! No! I expect to praach more than I ever nave. If the Lord will, four time* as much, though In manifold place*. I would not Oare halt with inch opportunity to declare the truth through the ear to audiences and to the yu through the printing prees. A nd here we have a stirring theme put bu/ore us by the prophet. A gruat general of King David wa* K'.cozar, the hero of the text. The 1'hill- tines opened battle ngHltist him, and hii troop* retrmtod. The cowards fled. Kim- Ear and tbrwe of hi* comrade* went Into the battle and swept the field, for four men with God on their side are stronger than a whole regiment with Ood again* them. "Kail back;' 1 Hhouted the corn - mander of the Philistine army. The 017 ran along the host, "Fall baokl" F.l'-.i- aar. having iwept the field, throws him- self on the ground to rent, but the muscles and sinew* of his hand had been i long bent around the hilt of hU sword that the hilt was Inilmlded In the flmh, nd the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the palm of the band, and he could not drop this sword which he had HO gallantly wielded. "HU hiind clave unto the sword," That Is what I call mngnlfleent fighting for the Ixird Ood of lsrn<i And we want more of It. I propose to show you how Klrazor took hold of the Hword and how the w>rd took hold of Kleaiar. I look at Kiivtzar'* band, ami I come to the con- cluiilim that he took the nwonl with a vi-ry tight grip. The cowards who MM hd I.D trouble In dropping their swords. A* thej lly over the ror.k* I hear thru* words clanging In every direction. It 1s nv enough for them to drop tholr woniK. Hut Klm/ar's h.ind clave unto the sword. In this rht i-.ilnn conflict we w.int a tighter grip of the gospel wea- pons, a Uglier (trasp of the two nlgixl sword of the truth It makes me dick to sen thorn Christian people who hold only a part of Uiu trulli n<l let the rout of the truth gn, MI thnt the 1'hlllstlnes, seeing Hie lini^-niil grasp, wrench the whole word awuy from them. IK. UillT info ThlBfj. 1'be only afn ilmix 'or us to do Is So put our thumb on i Im book of Qenmiii and ."! our h.Linl around tbu book until the Si w 1 .',I.IMI.-IH <x>mos Into the |mlm, n'nl L.II-II on sweeping niir lisiul itioiiml th book until the tips of the j linger* clutch nt Mir words, "In the be- 1 ginning Cruu 1 c,nmiil the, hnaveas anil the i enrth." I llku nil IntMiJ a gnwt deal bet- 1 tor than I do on uf thiwo nomby pain by < hrlstlnn* who hold n part of the truth ml let tlm nxt go lly mimc.lo. Ood pro- M--MH! this llihle ju.i us It U. mill It U a linmnNous blade. Thx nevorwit tost to v. l.i'-h a Mu-i.nl can !< ]>ut In ii word fac- tory Is to wind '/he HiuM amtind a Rim l.iiinl like, n rlliUin, mil then, when the sword U let li>-*'. It Hies IMCI. to In own iiMjxv 80 the Mvord of God's truth has U--M fully iet.'i|. and It 1s bent thU way inl tlutt wny and wniind Mils way and that wny. but It always ODIIIIM hack to Itx own shape. Think of It! A bookwrlt- ti<ii nenr 1U nent.iirlcH ago, and Mime of It ih.i iwuuis of y.-ar-. .-igo, and yot In our Li nut tlm nvi n,K" siiln of this book Is in iri than au.iMi i iipii s every wis-k and ni'irs thun a millnin cnpliM a year. I my nuw that a Nxik which U divinely In- spired in. 1 1 dlvi'iely kept mwl divinely anattnruil Is a wra|>n worth holding a tl({hii grip of. lluho), r,,leimo will (tome l-.i* anil try in \vii-neh nut of your hntid the HTM books of M. -., mill Siniii-.ii will (mine along mid 117 to \vrmrh out of four hnnil the n luiiilen, and Kenan will iiii nlung nnil try to \vn-nrh out of 5 our liiiinl th<> mill re lllo of the Ixinl emis ChrUt, and your amoclatK In tlm otto* or tlm faeUiry or the Innklng lioiisu will try to wnmi:li out of your huml i lui lltlrw Illlile, linl III III" Ktnillgth of the l-inl Oo't ii' Un.'l mid with Klivi/iir's (rip hold on to It. You give >ip the hbla, you give up nny purl of It, and | fou give uji innlon and pnui and life and hnavrn 1 1.1 not Iw jish-iiniil. young nutu, to have the world know that yo i are a Hi -ii.l of tlm llihli . 'I Ins lhi.il. U the f. i.-n.l of nil that In RIMX), and It i i.lu- wnrii mieiiiy of all l.hnt Is l<a<l. An clo- .p.. ia writer monntl-y given an Inrlilent uf n vnry Ixnl innii who stood In a mil of a i.-t.-i n IMI^HI. I'hls i-rlnilunl li.wl gone through all st^ le of mine, and he \\in there waiting /or in.- gitllows. The con- li t sUindlikg' them nt Ihn window of the eel I, this wrltur nay*, "looked oat and de. l.msl, ! sin an mn.lel ' H said that In nil UIM men uirl woman and children who ha|i|'iiiHt to b gathnred there. 'I am an Inflilnl.' " and the clo-iuent writer Mj'S, "Kvry man nnd woman thnre be- llnred him. ' Ami thn writer goiw on to ay, "If hn bad utood i Intro saying, 'I am a Christian,' every man ajid woroaii would huve snlil, 'llii In a liar I* " Ii... .,....., ..f Wr*n(. ThU Blblu U the sworn enwn* of all that to wrong, and It I* the friend of all thAt U guwl. Oh, hold <m it! Do not tokn rf it and tb.w w the rasl away Hold on to all of It. There are so many people now who do not know. Tou ask them if ili.. ->nl Is Immortal, and they say: "I guuas It Is; I don't know. Perhaps It U; pwhaps U Isn't." Is the Bible true? "Well, perhaps It Is. and perhaps It Isn't Perhaps it may be, figuratively, and par- hapa it may be partly, and perhaps It may not be at all. " They despise what they call the apostolln creed, but If their own creed were wrltton out It would read HUi this: "I believe In nothing, the maker of heaven and earth, and In noth- ing which It hath Hcnt, which nothing was born of nothing and which nothing was dead and burled nnd descended Into nothing and arose from nothing and amended to nothing nnd now sltteth al the right hand of nothing, from which tt J will ootne to judge nothing. I bollove In the holy agnostic church and In the com* munlon of nothingarians and In the for- giveness of nothing, and the resurrection of nothing and In the life thai neror shall be. Amen !" That Is the creed of tens of thousands of people In thi* day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I will not. "I believe In Ood the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ and in the holy catholic church and In the communion of snlnM and In the life everlasting. Amen." Oh. when I see Klnizar taking such stout grip of the sword In the battU agninsl kin and for riflhtcousne**, I com* to the conrlusloB that wo ought to tak* a stouter frrlp'of GoJ's eternal truth th* sword of tigbttiousness. Spltil of Slf I ..rjtfiiln... As I look at Kleazar's hand I alto notlos bis HpIrM of self forgctfulnoss. He did not notlo- that the hilt of the sword was oat- Inc i brungh the palm of bis band. H* did not know It hurt him. A* h* wonl out into the conflict he was so anxious for the victory ho forgot himself, and that hilt might go over so deeply Into the palm of the hand, It could not disturb him. "His hand clave unto th* sword." Ob, my brother* and sisters, let us go Into the ChrUttun conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praise* us or denounces us? What do w care for misrepresentation or abu.se or perswutlon la a conflict like this? Lot us forgot ourselves. That man who Is afraid of gcttlug hU hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who care* win 'ther you gut hurt or not If yon get the victory? Oh, how many Christians there ar* who are all the time worrying aliout th* wny thi world treat* thorn. They are so tlrud, and they ar* so abused, and they are v. tempted, when Elenzar did not 'think wbt'tlu-r h* had a hand or an orui or a foot. All h* wanted was victory. We sne how mom forgot themselves In worldly achievement. We have often Men men who. In order to achieve worldly success, will forgot all physical fatigue and a/I annoyance and all obstacle. Just after the battle of Yorktown, In the American Revolution, a musician, wound ed. was told he must have his limbs amputated, and they worenhout to fasten him to the surgeon's table, for It wa* long before the merciful discovery of annosl hetlus. He sitld, "No, don't fasten me to that tubliv, get me a violin.' A violin was brought to him, nud h* said, Sow go to work us I begin to pUy," and for 40 minute-., during the awful pangs of ampul tt ion, he moved not a muscle nor dropjiod a note, while he played some sweet tune. Oh. Is It not m.runito that with the music of the gospel of Jesus Christ and with this grand march of tho church militant on the way to lus-omii the church triumphant we cannot forgot ourselves and forget all j pang anil all sorrow nud all persecution ami all perturbation ? Wo know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink lM'k for niltagonl-m or for hardship. You have admins! 1'rcsrott's "Conquest of' Mexico," as brilliant, and beautiful a history as wa* ever \viltlen, but some of you may not know under what dlsad- j vantaws It wns written that "Conquest of Mexico" for I'nvscott wa* totally , blind, nnd be had two pieces of wood . parallel to each other fastened, and, I tot.. illy blind, with his pen between those! pieces of wood, he wrote, the stroke ' ngnlnst one piece of wood tcllintr how for i. In- |wn must go In one wuy, the stroke, against tlm in her piix-e of wood telling huw far the pen must go th* other wny. Oh, how miicS men will endur* for worldly knowledge nnd for worldly sue- ' . e-s. mid yet lnw lltt.lo wo endure for I .1. -ms Christ 1 llww many Christians there ' IP' Mint go around saying: "Ob, my I ! i ml. oh, my ham I. my hurt hand I; Don't you see there Is blood on the hand, ami there Is blood oa the sword?" while I- Ic.iAar with the hilt imbedded in the llesh of his rlKht hand, doe* not know It Must I be cnrrhd to tho skle* On tlowe-y lnxls of ease, While others fought to win the prise Or nailed through bloody seas? MiOWltiK f..t < drill's s.k,. What have we suffered In comparison | With those who expire*! with suffocation , or were burned or wore, chopped to piece* for the truth's sake? W* talk of the per- i sedition of olden time*. There It just a* j much |. IMS-HI inn piling on now In vari- ous ways. In ist.i. In Madagascar, Id men wore put to doath for Christ's sake. They -ttrt to bo hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the. bo daubed down, and while they were winging In these basket* over th* rook* they sang: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll. While the tempest still ls high. Then they were dashed down to death. Ob, bow much others have endured for Christ, and bow little we endure for Christ! We want to ride to heav*n In a Pullman sleeping car, onr fenr, on soft plu-.li, the bud made up early, so w* can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only In time to enter the golden city. We want all the surgeons to fix our hand up. LA* them bring on all the lint and all the bandago* and all the salve, for our hand Is hurt, While Kleazar does not know his band Is hurt. "His hand clave unto the sword." As I look at Elettzar's hand I come M the nonelus' in that he has done a great deal of hard hit: . '.. I am not surprised when I see thai these four men Kleazar and his three companions drove bark th* army of Philistine* thnt Elivizar's sword clave to his hand, for every time h* truck an enemy with one end of th* sword the other end of the sword wound- ad him. When he took bold of the sword, the award took hold of him. Oh, we have found an enemy who can - ot be conquered by rbsewater and s*fl jpeoshe*. It most be sharp srrote and straight thrnnt. There Is Intemperance, and there U fraud, and there U gambl- ing, and there Is lust, and there are ton thousand battalions of iniquity, armed i I'h HUtlne Inqulty. How are they to b* captured and overthrown? Soft furmons In morocco coses laid down in froi.t of an xqubiit* audience will not do It. Ton bav* got to call things by their right name. Yon have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacra- ment on Sunday and devour widows' houses all the we< U. Ahabs here. Herod* hern. Jecebels here. The masMorre of th* Infants bore. Strike for Ood so hard that while you slay the sin the sword will adhere to your band. I tell you. my friends, we want a few John Knoxes and John Wesley* In the Christian church to-day. I .i.J.-.,< 7 ( Ovrrfl ! t. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. Wo keep on refining on rocks, In order to make thMr death the more dnodfnl In nntlelpatlon, they wire put In baskets and swung tnaail fro over th* prsolplo* that they might so* how many hundred feet they would have to It nntll we send apologetic word to Iniquity we are about to capture It. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladios, and we must ride on white palfrey under embroidered houKing, putting the ipura In only just, enough to make the charger dance grace- , fully, and then we must send a missive, di-llente a* a wedding c.ird, to ask the old . black giant of sin If he will not surren- der. Women saved by the graoo of God ! and on glorious mission sent, detained | from S.ibbuth elastics becanno their new hat Is not done. Churches that shook our , cities with ;rrrat revivals sending around ! to ask -iii.e demonstrative worshipper If he will not please to say 'amen' and' "halleluiah" a little softer. Itsoems as U; In our churches we wanted a baptism of ' cologne and lialm of a thousand flowers when we actually need a baptism of ore from tho Ixird God of Pentecost. But w* [ are so afraid somebody will criticise our! sermons or crltlcbte our prayers or critl- ' !- our n-ligious work that our anxiety for the world's redemption Is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, whll* Klttaznr went into the conflict "and his hand clav* unto the sword." But I seo In the next plant what a ban! thing It was for Klenzar to get his ban. I and his word pnrteri. The muscle* and the sinew* had been so long grasped . around the Mword he could not arop It when hu proposed to drop It, and his three comnules, I suppose, came up and triisl to help him, and they bathed the bark part of the hand, hoping tho sinews and muscles would relax. Hut. no. "HU hand clave unto the sword." Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed again, 'ami hU hand olavo unto the sword." Hut after awhile they were successful, and then they noticed that the curve la { tho palm of the hand correspondiid ex- actly with the curve of the hilt. "Ills band clave unto the sword." You and I have seen It many a time. I There are In th* United State* to day many aged ministers of tho gospel. They are too feeble now to prm.-h. In th* church records tho word standing oppo- site their name U "emurltus," or the words are, "a minister without charge." You put that old minister of the gopel now Into a prayer meeting or occasional pulpit or a sickroom where there Is some one to bo comforted, and It is the same old ring to his voice, and 'he same old story of pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. Ills hand bus so long clutched tlm sword In Christian conflict he cannot drop it. "UU band cUve unto the sword." .t ni or far Christ. I had In my parish In Philadelphia a very ogod man who In his early life had been the companion and advisor of the early Prwiditnts, fciadlson and Monroe. Ho had wielded vast Influence, but I only knew him as a very agoJ man The most remarkable tt ing about hint Wai his ardor for Christ. When he could not stand up in the meetings without prop- ping, he would throw bis arm around a pillar of the church, and, though bis mind was partially gono, his '.ove for Christ was so great that all w*r* In doop renptvt and profound admiration, ; Mir were moved when he spoku. I was called to see him die, 1 enterud th* room, and he t-tiiil, "Mr. Talmage, I cannot speak to yon now." H* was In a very pleasant <lo.lt him, as he Imagined h* had an Mich-nit, buforo him. 11* said, "I ; mut Uill those people to oome to Christ . and prepare for heaven." And then In this pleasant delirium, Kith arms lifted, thU ootogtmarlun preached Christ and told of the glories of the world to oome. There, lying on bis dying pillow, hU dying hand clave to his sword Oh, If there ever* was anyone who had a right to retire from the conflict, II was | old Joshua. Solldors come back from I battJe have the names of the battles on their flag*, showing where they disting- uished themselves, and It U a very ap- propriate Inscription. Look at thai flM of old 0eml Jeekaa. OB It. Jertohe, Glbeon. Hasar, city of Al, and Instead of the stars sprtnklud on the flag the sun and the moon which stood still. There h* Is, 110 yean old. He Is lying flat on his back, bat he Is preaching. His dying words are a battle charge agnlnst Idolatry and a rallying cry for the Ix>rd of Hosts as be says, "Behold, this day I go the way of the all the earth, and Ood bath not failed to fulfill bis promise concern- ing Israel." His dying hand clave unto the sword. There U the headletw body of Paul oo the road to OSTI. Ills grtat brain and bis great heart have been severed. The elmwo-id rods hod stung him fearfully. When the coru ship broke np, be swam ashoru, coming np drenched with the brim-. Every day since that day when the hone reared under him in the suburbs of Damascus, as the supernatural light fell, down to this day, when be U M years of age and 111 from the prison cell of the Mamertine, he ho* been outrage- ously treated, and he Is watting to die. How does he spend his last noun? Tell- ing the world bow badly be fuel* and describing the rheumatism that he got in prison, the rheumatism afflicting his limbs, or the neuralgia piercing his tem- ples, or the thirst that fevers bis tongue? Oh. no! HI* last word* are the battle shout for Christendom: "lam now ready to be offered, and the departure U at hand. I have fought the good fight." And so his dying hand clave unto th* sword. It was In the front room on the second floor that my father lay n dying. It was Saturday niorntng. 4 o'clork. Jnst three yiun before that day iny mother bad left him for the skies, and he had been home- tick to join her company. He was 88 year* of age. Minister* of the gospel came In to comfort him, but be eoufort- ed them. How wondi-rfally th words sounded out from his dying pillow, "I have been yonng and now am old. yet have I never eeeu the rightuxisj forsaken or his seed begging bread." They bathed his brow, and they bathed his hands, and they bathed his feet, and they succeeded In straightening out the feet, but they did not sin >sl In bathing open the band so It would stay open. They bathed the band open, but it came shut. They bathed it open again, but It cume shut. What was the matter with the thumb nd the finger of that old hand? Ah, 11 1 had so long touched the sword of Chris- 1 Man conflict that "his hand clave onto the swonL ' ' Th* >-r m u Tn!c. I Intend this sermon as a tonic. I want you to hold the truth with Ineradic- able grip, and I want you to strike so hard for God that it will m* t. and while yon take tho sword the sword will take you. Thy saints in all this glorious war Shall ronquor, though they die. They see the triumph from afar And seize it with the eye. When 'hat Illustrious day shall rt*e And nil thy nrmic* shine In robes of victory through tb skies, The glory shall be thine. FOILED HIS RIVAL. FOR STARTING PLANTS. A Dio That -. T staru All Vir- Nearly everyone trtus t* start a few planu early In the spring la the boos*, and expends a world of labor. In the aggrtqcau*, carrying them from the Win- dow to stove shelf at night to keep them from chilling, and oftentimes freezing. The accompanying out shows a way or which to avoid all this trouble, and, at the same time, grow more and better plants. Take a box of any ixe desired. about two feet in huigbt, and arrange it on a movable stand or bench (a) so that It oan be set before the sunniest window on bright, clear days. In one side of this box. at the bottom, oat an opening (b) through which to Insert the lamp, and provide It wtrh a Hnsrd door (o), for rVR STARTING PLAXT&. tke lanrp nan be shot op and IM beat utilized, by having a piece of sheet. Iron (d) the sue at the bottom surface ef the box stretched above the lamp, and out* distance above this, iron rods, tat tae support of the smaller boxes ( ). containing earth and the seeds which are tu be genataated. As to the dotted line* a* the top if), they represent a tight wooden oorur to abut down ovr ihe whole a* Bight and take off In the morn- ing. Of oeune a snail opening should be made in UM tep of tho lamp chamber and another In the bottom (preferably at the aides and opposite each other), tt> admit air and 1.* out any ga* from the lamp, the sheet iron fitting so close!/ that no feme* from the same oan gvt mp to the plant boxm above. Constructed in this way a very small flame will keep everything warm and growing all night, llunc* the housewife may plant tomatoes, peppers and the) Ilka, or any kind of flower seeds, early enough M have them get a good start, and that without experiencing any seri- ous setback*, no inatur though the mer- cury is found some morning down near sero Frederick O Slbley. la N. T. Tribmne. ( UI..H..U I at* OO HU < antrTmn' Qan i- l'rvnt MarrlMe*. Incidents romantic and exciting enough for a I'M item* American draum were furnished by tho encounters of Kip Lung and Wo Fang, brought to the attention of the police to-day. Hop Muy had trvwos of raven black and her almond eye* slanted bewitch- Inisly. Ucnco Kip Lung and Wo Kong f.-ll In love with her The sunny slopes i.f the Yangtseklung wen' the scenes of the dual love-making, which started two yean ago and to-day culminated in the Harrison street police station. Shortly after 11 o'clock an excited Celestial, fancifully draped and sandaled, rushed into Cuptnln Mnhoney's office and deliv- ered himself as follows: "He cutt*e offet) quene Wo Fans; gettet glrlee Moy no good Chinee wantoe anvxtod. ' ' After half an hour's work Captain Uahoney managed t gather from th* disconnected talk of the Chinaman thai he bad been deprived of bis quene and hli matrimonial chance* at on* stroke. Tho diabolical plot had been consum- mated, according to Kip, by Wo Fang, tho playmate of his boyhood, and his hated rival for tho hand of the fair Mnv Detect ivos Klynn and Herman Investi- gated and this Is what they gathered: Two yean ago Kip Moy, a wealthy tea planter with extensive holdings In the Yangtsoklang Valley, was visited by two young men. both poor, but ambitions, who doslrvd the hand of his daughter. Hop Moy. The sroru old Celestial, bow- over, refused absolutoly to take cither for a son In law until he hod amassed a cer- tain amount of cash, lalra of opportuni- ties beyond the sens hod drifted Yangtse- ' klnnxwnrd. and both aspirant* for th* hand of Moy went to Chicago. Kip Lung stnrwsl out to win a fortune by conducting a nMtnurant at 839 Clark street. Across the street was the laundry of Wo Fang. The purvey Ing of chop soiie* and tea, however, pror-.tl moru lucrative thun th* cleansing of shtrln, and rwently It became known In Chinatown that I. ting wai about to depart for th* Orient to claim his bride. The rumor reached the ear* of Fang and the liitclllirriicM smote him hard. Alone In his bunk he lay over night, turning the matter over In his mind, and then ho derided upon a plan. Lung could not enter decorously Into the community of hi-, chllilhcod queiieless. This morning Fung went to the establishment of lAing with a long, keen knife concealed In his slmve. There was a Mash and a yell. Lung's long black hrnld lay upon th* floor of the romnurnnt. Pang fled and th* police are looking for him. II. lr . I ... I >..t "I think Ml gi-t my wlf* cook book," said the young man. "How long have you been married?" aked the experlenmd one. "Sli months." "Too late. You ought to have bonght It the first wiwk She will lake tt now H an Indication that yon no loofssr love LIGHT ON t-PHAYING. K<v.l DIXOTTT Thai Will Ad4 M the Hup* of trail l.r.twor*. At a recent formers' convention Prof. BurrlU ef the University of Illinois pv to his bearers a piece al information thai he said bad not yet got into the books. It was relative M the nrst spraying of fitut and trees tar fungous dUeasos. It has been believed th.it In the case of most of these pnew the spore* lived ever on the twigs of the trees. It was advised to spray before, toe blossoms were ope*, for the purpose of killing these colontesj of spores, fruit raisurs have been religi- ously carrying out instructions In thi* regard, and the experiment stations have been sending out spraying calendan yes*"" by year In which the fruit raiser U ad- viwd to spray before the opening of the blosnems. But now Ii has been found that the theory of the snore* living over on the twigs U erroneous. The spores live over In the leaves that fall to the ground and lie there till spring. With the tlntt brvath of spring these spore* ripen suffloleatty to doat In the air, and a* soon a* the young leaf begin* to expand they find a lodgment there and liegln their life work. It Is, therefore, useless to spray at th* earliest time Indicated In most of our books on spraying. This dis- covery will add much to the eomfort at the orchardUt, for It will decrease hU times of spraying. It also adds greatly to bis hopes, for If the spores live over *a tho dead leaves the proper way to get nil of them is to dratroy the leaven. ThU may be done by clean cultivation, plow- Ing under the leave* that em-ape the burning. I'm Irlo Farmer. -Mr ( Hrtt C*wt. When tl come* to putting up cows fe winter, the cow that has no horns will be found to take much loss room than her neighbor who Is tempted to and gen- erally does book and tiuht all those near her. In the stable, of course, each stall will accommodate It* cow. horns ar no horns. But we believe that horned cattle are often kept in stables on bright, pleas- ant winter days, to keep them from hooking one another, when they woulsl he much healthier If allowed to run ID a mall yard. Most barnyard* are mad* much larger than would be nrorasary If all horns were removed. ThU vtastesj manure, as more surface It exposed t* rain, and the droppings In a large yard are ofeon to soattwwl that thev are never gathered into heaps and carried where they ar* needed. American Cultivator. Lest h, a Bfr. It wa* W P. Jaiue* who wrote that ensj would rather have Mrs. Doewell'* letttot to Uouy about Johnson than Johnson's tetter* to sir*. Boswell about Ooxzy, for II wa* Mrs. Bouy who made the dellghthtl ebMTvation that shs had sewn many a bsM led by a man. but m\er before *ean a man tad by a bear. K.ol.iln. < the Dally Thr*4> In the tenth century two meals a day wan the rule with all uliuiaea. Then grad- ually the supper was added A cookbook lasiied In the yoar 1600 ha* a menu for a dinner of three courses, doubtleo* the lar- ffeet number for a dinner at that time, aud two course* were generally adopted Din- ner was tbs principal meal, of couna, a* which th Kngltsh at* a great deal, r**f> In* occasionally, tfcsjti sj| It again Ull sur-